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Organisational virtuality: a conceptual framework for communication in shared virtual environments
This paper shows how popular 'structure-driven' approaches fail those who use and design virtual teams, and presents 'organisational virtuality' a conceptual framework which is may be used to understand the ways in which advanced ICTs and face-to-face meetings are used to support communication between users of shared virtual environments. It is argued that if knowledge exchange requires the sharing of contexts, then virtual teams may only be innovative if the contexts (space, time, community) which are not shared between them are re-personalised, through a mediated sense of telepresence, temporal telepresence and telecommunity.
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Publisher URL
Pages
7.0Presentation Type
- paper
Event name
MIT Media Lab / University College London workshop 'Presence in Shared Virtual Environments'Event location
BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, IpswichEvent type
workshopEvent date
10-11 June 1998Department affiliated with
- SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications
Notes
The workshop is sometimes called the First International Conference on Presence, because the next event in the series was the Second International Conference on PresenceFull text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes